Net Internal Migration Rate Across Europe

In November 2019, we published a paper assessing the impact of internal migration on redistributing population within European countries. Specifically we assess the impact of internal migration on promoting population concentration or deconcentration. Below is a thread posted on Twitter providing key aspects of the paper. The paper is open access: at the end of this post is the reference.

Why this matters? First, while considerable attention is devoted to international migration, the number of internal migration (763 million) is significantly greater -almost 3 times that of international migrants (272 million)

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Reference

Rowe, F., Bell, M., Bernard, A., Charles-Edwards, E. and Ueffing, P., 2019. Impact of Internal Migration on Population Redistribution in Europe: Urbanisation, Counterurbanisation or Spatial Equilibrium?. Comparative Population Studies, 44.